Wild Nothing

March 10, 2014  With Record Store Day is less than 40 days away, more and more exclusive releases are being announced. And while it's not a 24-hour song, today brings us one of the most unique — "Memory Loss" by the Snow, an indie supergroup of sorts featuring Beach Fossils' Dustin Payseur, Wild Nothing's Jack Tatum, and Holograms' Andreas Lagerström. …Read on

July 2, 2013  Captured Tracks turns five this year and the Brooklyn label is celebrating with its very own festival. CT5 runs Satuday, August 31 to Sunday, September 1 and will take place at local watering hole The Well. The lineup boasts several stars from the Captured Tracks roster, including DIIV, Mac DeMarco, Wild Nothing, Beach Fossils, Soft Moon, and Blouse. …Read on

April 23, 2013  Wild Nothing's cooling vibes provided us some sweet relief on the scorching final day of Coachella, but Jack Tatum's got more to give. On May 15, the Virginia dream-pop drifter will release Empty Estate, an EP-sized follow-up to last year's Nocturne, via Captured Tracks. Above is the first taste of the seven-song set, "A Dancing Shell," which dwells firmly in the flanged guitar and mellow dance grooves of the '80s. …Read on

February 14, 2013  Last year SPIN spoke to Wild Nothing's Jack Tatum about his obsession with HBO's awesome fantasy series Game of Thrones, but we had no reason to believe the guy would take it this far. In the new video for gushy Nocturne standout "Only Heather," we first witness a man's feet ambling down a sidewalk at night. …Read on

October 23, 2012  Back in 2008, SPIN rhetorically asked if Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek, Brokeback Mountain) was "the coolest indie actress around." Four years later, we have a definitive answer in the form of Wild Nothing's new music video for "Paradise," a dreamy drifter from the Virginia act's Nocturne LP. …Read on

August 7, 2012  Brooklyn-via-Virginia mope-pop revivalist Jack Tatum unveiled "Paradise" today, a synth-lined, high-altitude mood-piece set to appear on his Wild Nothing project's forthcoming sophomore full-length, Nocturne. "There was a great deal of restlessness that went into the creation of this album," Tatum says of Nocturne, which is due August 28 courtesy of Captured Tracks. …Read on

July 26, 2012  Wild Nothing singer-guitarist Jack Tatum has some strong opinions about what constitutes great pop, and he brandishes them beautifully on his sophomore album, Nocturne, a shimmering reverie of reverb-y guitars and swooning vocals out August 28 on Captured Tracks.
On his downtime, though, Tatum is just as intrigued by the King of Westeros as he is by, say, Morrissey. …Read on